The information at http://lwn.net/Articles/175287/ helped first me and then another person solving this problem.
Symlinking /usr/share/X11/xkb to /etc/X11/xkb (which should exist - if /usr/share/X11/xkb also exists already as a directory, it is probably empty except for a README file, and can be removed) solved the problem. -- After upgrade in kubuntu there are no keyboard layouts https://launchpad.net/bugs/67612 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs